Bellwether - a castrated ram (wether), carrying a bell, so the other sheep can follow even in fog or dark (View Post)

So when should one take down one's Black Friday decorations? (View Post)

First letter to Santa (View Post)

Posties who wear shorts in winter weather are lunatics I wear them from my return from my spring walk abroad, until it it gets too cold in late autumn. Then I wrap up Today was cold. I wore three pai… (View Post)

The plural octopi is a hypercorrection, coming from the mistaken notion that the -us in octōpūs is a Latin second declension ending. The word is actually treated as a third declension noun in Latin. … (View Post)